Promotes and advocates increased attention to gender issues in ADB projects and forges links with development partners on gender-related issues to accelerate the integration of gender equity and women’s empowerment in ADB operations.

Offers courses on cross-sectoral approaches to mainstreaming and addressing gender issues in development projects.

Promotes attention to governance and public sector management issues in ADB operations, and is an important institutional platform for knowledge sharing, cross-departmental coordination, peer review, learning, and links to external networks and partners.

Offers courses related to good governance and public sector management toward development effectiveness.

Promotes new initiatives and policies that aim to reduce poverty, inequality, and vulnerability among poor and marginalized groups by transforming social institutions toward inclusive and equitable social development.

Offers courses on new initiatives, policies, and approaches for creating better social institutions.

About k-Learn

ADB organizes conferences, seminars, training programs, and other events on the development challenges and efforts in Asia and the Pacific. These events produce learning materials that offer a wealth of technical knowledge.

k-Learn captures this knowledge in flexible formats—case studies, research papers, slide presentations, online courses, videos, photos, and infographics—and stores them in one place so that you can easily search, filter, and access them for sharing and reuse.

k-Learn provides these materials free for you to use in full or in part, for non-profit purposes, with attribution to the author as copyright owner. The author also has the responsibility for the accuracy of the data used/information cited in the material.

k-Learn was developed and is maintained by the Knowledge Sharing and Services Center of ADB's Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department.